Friday 15th JanuarySubject Verb Object The girl brushed her hair. or Fido barked. Let’s practise making some simple sentences together. Building SV and SVO Sentences Using just two

Friday 15th January2021

Today we are going to focus on Sentence

building!

You will need a paper and a pencil as you are going to

be building and improving sentences!

Building Simple SentencesEach coloured brick represents a different part of a sentence.

With just two or three of these starting blocks, you can make simple sentences, such as:

Subject Verb Object

The girl brushed her hair. Fido barked.or

Let’s practise making some simple sentences together.

Building SV and SVO SentencesUsing just two or three of the bricks below, how many different SV and SVO sentences can you make?

Linda

or

Share one of your simple sentences with a friend. Does it contain the correct combination of building blocks?

The trees

Mydad

A kitten

George

QueenAnne

Threedogs

Mostshops

bit cooked

chewed read

wrote kicked

prepared stole

twelvestories the food

herfinger a ball

anoctopus

fourlollies

a mealone

treat

Those Pesky Determiners

Determiners are words that come before a noun. They introduce the noun and give the reader important information about it. Some examples are:

trees

finger

dogs dadthe two my

octopusher an

Improving Simple Sentences

Once you have a simple sentence, you can use other bricks to make it more interesting to the reader.

Why not add an adjective to describe any nouns or pronouns in the sentence?

This will turn a simple sentence such as...adjective

girl brushed hair.The herlittle curly

The girl brushed her hair.

... into a sentence like:

Sneaky Adjectives

Can you think of adjectives to describe the nouns below and sneak them in between the determiner and the noun?

treesThe ?

elephantThe ?

sweetsSome ?

castlesFour ?

tastydelicioussturdystronggrey

humongoustowering

bushy

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some cheeky little

helpers if you get stuck.

Talk to your partner. Could I add more than one adjective between the determiner

and the noun?

Slightly Exciting SentencesCan you include an adjective between every noun and its determiner to make these sentences a little bit more exciting?

boysTheare

watchingfootballmatch.

a

ducksTwo ate bread.some

clownA juggled balls.five

Adding a Little More Excitement

Once you’ve added adjectives to describe the nouns, why not add an adverb to describe the verb?

Think about how the action is happening and include an adverb to give the reader more information.adverb

girl brushed hair.The herlittle curly

An adverb usually goes before the verb that it describes.

girl brushed hair.The herlittle curlycarefully

Awesome Adverbs

Can you think of adverbs to describe the verbs below?

Can you think of more than one adverb which could go with each verb?

?

?

happilyangrilyquicklycrossly

carefullyneatly

dangerouslybravely

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some cheeky little

helpers if you get stuck.

ran

walked

? wrote

?

?

cut

jumped

? smiled

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Slightly More Exciting SentencesCan you include an adverb in these sentences to make them even more exciting?

mum washed hands.My herlovely dirty

boys kicked leaves.Some theplayful orange

Anita ate Sandwich..

aTired delicious

Spicing Things Up!

Now let’s take it one step further by adding a fronted adverbial.

A fronted adverbial is a word, phrase or clause at the beginning of a sentence to give more information about the action. They are always followed by a comma.

frontedadverbial

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Spicing Things Up!

Now let’s take it one step further by adding a fronted adverbial.

A fronted adverbial is a word, phrase or clause at the beginning of a sentence to give more information about the action. They are always followed by a comma.

frontedadverbial

girl brushed hair.The herlittle curlycarefully

girl brushed hair.The herlittle curlycarefullyIn the

morning

Adding Amazing AdverbialsCan you start these sentences with a fronted adverbial to give the reader more

information about when, where, how or how often the action took place?

circus left town.the ourexciting smallsadly

Jakub started school.hisshy newnervously

seagulls pecked breadcrumbs.many thenoisy soggyhungrily

It’s Getting Hot in Here!Your sentences are getting mighty spicy! Let’s turn up the heat even further by using a conjunction to add another clause.

Use a co-ordinating or subordinating conjunction to add another clause to your sentence which will give the reader all the information they need to fully understand what is happening.

conjunctionand clause

girl brushed hair.the herlittle curlycarefullyIn the

morning,

girl brushed hairthe little curlycarefullyIn the

morning, herbecause it was

tangled.

Cracking ConjunctionsCan you add a co-ordinating or subordinating conjunction to these sentences to give the reader extra information about the action?

campers hiked to tentsthe weary soddenslowlyCompletelyexhausted, their

noiseechoed

in cavethe mysterious massivescarilySuddenly, the

Salim slammed doorfrustrated woodenfirmlyObviously

angry, the

Building SentencesLet’s look at how our sentence has changed just by

adding a few different bricks.

We started off with...

girl brushed hairthe little curlycarefullyIn the

morning,her

because it was tangled.

The girl brushed her hair.

...and have transformed it into:

Why is the second sentence better?Which would a reader enjoy more? Why?

Scorching SentencesCan you transform this boring sentence in just three minutes?

Use the building blocks below to help you.

The boy dranksome milk.

boy drank milkthe clever freshhurriedlyEveryday, some

so that his bones stayed strong.

subject verb object determiner adjective adverbfronted

adverbialconjunctionand clause

start stop



Simon watched the TV.

Simon watched TVbored ancientsilentlyEach

morning, thebecause he had

nothing else to do.



start stop



Samson attacked the lion.

Samson attacked lionfearless ferociousbravelyHeroically, theas his life

was in danger.



start stop



The teacher marked the books.

teacher marked booksthe dedicated thickcarefullyAfter

school, theso she could see how her class

had done.

start stop



Start BuildingCan you write sentences which will fit with the following patterns of bricks?



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Friday 15th JanuarySubject Verb Object The girl brushed her hair. or Fido barked. Let’s practise making some simple sentences together. Building SV and SVO Sentences Using just two